Your Family Doctor to High Blood Pressure by Dr Vinod Wadhwa

Your Family Doctor to High Blood Pressure by Dr Vinod Wadhwa

Author:Dr Vinod Wadhwa [none]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: none
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2011-04-02T00:00:00+00:00


Alpha blocker drugs

This is a quaint group that works on the nervous system to reduce blood pressure. Incidentally this group of drugs is found to be of great use in benign prostatic hypertrophy (enlargement of the prostate), especially in elderly males.

Examples are:

Terazosin

Prazosin

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Side effects

These drugs could cause severe orthostatic hypotension, meaning that the blood pressure could fall dramatically on standing up, thereby causing fainting and at times, a fall. To prevent such an episode, the dosage is increased slowly and the blood pressure is monitored regularly.



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